Merry Christmas!!
December 24th, 2006I have finished laying the table for tomorrow’s lunch (shades of Mr. Hudson in Upstairs Downstairs, I can tell you) and am now supping a glass of cold champagne before retiring to bed. The onslaught from my children tomorrow morning will be almost as fierce as the bombardment we gave the Germans on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It will probably commence at an earlier hour. We are surprisingly sanguine about the prospect.
“Love Actually” is on the TV - the film with Hugh Grant playing a Prime Minister who is some sort of Blair alter ego. Something needs defrosting, so I’d better go. Sian says that it is her birthday and I haven’t had any time for her, so no musings about the modern Christmas, I’m afraid.
The crib service in our village church this afternoon was wonderful - George was able to tell me just before he went to sleep that we were celebrating Baby Jesus’ birthday tomorrow. Job done. Sian is now saying that she is doing all the work to prepare for Christmas, which is utter rubbish, but she does like a mention now and again. That’s two mentions in two paragraphs, which is quite enough.
As a means of calming the offspring down, we visited the cinema to see “Happy Feet” which is an all-singing, all-dancing animated extravaganza about penguins. The moral of the tale is if you can dance, then international fisheries policy can be changed for the better. If this be true, then if Ben Bradshaw entered Strictly Come Dancing, we might be able to make real progress with the Common Fisheries Policy. Nice thought, and not so far-fetched as all that, you may think.
A Happy Christmas to you all.
